Martin Hand
B.A.(Hons.)(MMU), M.A.(MMU), Ph.D.(York, UK)
Assistant Professor

Email: handm@queensu.ca
Office: Mac-Corry D520
Phone: (613) 533-6000 ext. 74494

RESEARCH AREAS:

• Digital Culture; particularly photography, Web 2.0, and archives/memory
• Consumption; design and practice, sustainability, mundane technologies
• Cultural Sociology; cultural institutions, material culture

SUPERVISION:

I am currently supervising graduate students in the following areas:

• History of Convergent Domestic Technologies
• Digital Photographic Practices
• Digital Photography and Narrative
• Ethics and Politics of Consumption

CURRENT COURSES:

• SOCY931 - New Media Cultures
• SOCY430 - Consumer Culture
• SOCY363 - Science, Technology and Society
• SOCY284 - Sociology of Communication and Information Technologies

BOOKS:

Hand, M. (Forthcoming) Digital Photography and Society. Cambridge: Polity.

Hand, M. (2008) Making Digital Cultures: access, interactivity and authenticity. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Shove, E. Watson, Hand, M. Ingram, J. (2007) The Design of Everyday life. Oxford: Berg.
 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

Hand, M. (Forthcoming) ‘Images and Information in Cultures of Consumption', in Heywood, I. Sandywell, B. (eds.) Handbook of Visual Culture. Oxford: Berg. Oxford: Berg.

Hand, M. (Forthcoming) ‘The Rise and Fall of Cyberspace, or how Cyberspace turned inside out', in Hall, J. Grindstaff, L. Ming-Cheng, L. (eds.) Handbook of Cultural Sociology. London: Routledge.

Hand, M. (Forthcoming) ‘Information Technology', in Southerton, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. CQ Press.

Hand, M. (Forthcoming) ‘Content Analysis’, in Southerton, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. CQ Press.

Hand, M. (Forthcoming) ‘Photography and Video', in Southerton, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Consumer culture. CQ Press.

Hand, M. (Forthcoming) ‘Domestic Technologies', in Southerton, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. CQ Press.

Hand, M. (Forthcoming) ‘Freezers’, in Southerton, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. CQ Press.

Hand, M. Shove, E. Southerton, D. (2007) ' Home Extensions: Time, Space, and Practice' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 25 (1): 668-681

Hand, M. Shove, E. (2007) ‘Condensing Practices: ways of living with the freezer', Journal of Consumer Culture, Vol. 7(1): 79-104

Gane, N. Venn, C. Hand, M. (2007) ‘Ubiquitous Surveillance', Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 25: 7-8

Hand, M. Moore, K. (2006) ‘Community, Identity and Digital Games', in Rutter, J. Bryce, J. (eds.) Understanding Digital Games. London: Sage. Pp. 241-266.

Hand, M. (2005) ‘The People’s Network: self-education and empowerment in the public library’, Information, Communication & Society, Vol. 8(3) Pp. 368-393

Hand, M. Shove, E. Southerton, D. (2005) 'Explaining Showering: a discussion of the material, conventional and temporal dimensions of practice', Sociological Research Online, Vol. 10(2)

Hand, M. Shove, E. (2004) ‘Orchestrating Concepts: kitchen dynamics and regime change in Good Housekeeping and Ideal Home, 1922-2002’, Home Cultures, Vol. 1 (3), pp. 1-22.

Pantzar, M. Shove, E. Hand, M. (2004) ' Innovations in Fun': the careers and carriers of digital photography and floowball', in Pantzar, M. Shove, E. (eds.) Manufacturing Leisure. Helsinki: National Consumer Research Centre, Finland

Southerton, D. Warde, A. Hand, M. (2004) ‘The Limited Autonomy of the Consumer: challenging Conceptualizations of sustainable consumption’, in Southerton, D. Chappells, H. & Van Vliet, B. (eds.) Sustainable Consumption: implications of changing infrastructures of provision. Manchester: Edward Elgar.

Hand, M. Sandywell, B. (2002) ‘E-topia as Cosmopolis or Citadel: on the democratizing and de-democratizing logics of the Internet, or, towards a critique of the new technological fetishism’, Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 19 (1-2) pp. 197-225.